Shackleton's Way: Leadership Lessons from the Great Antarctic Explorer

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There was no conceivable circumstance under which three strangers could possibly appear from nowhere at the whaling station, and certainly not from the direction of the mountains.

The government of Uruguay proffered a vessel that came within 100 miles of Elephant Island before being beaten back by the ice. In 1920, tired of the lecture circuit, Shackleton began to consider the possibility of a last expedition. When ice crushed Shackleton’s ship, the Endurance, during the Antarctic expedition of 1914-1916, it stranded him and his 27 men far from civilization.The party was in high spirits, despite the difficult conditions; Shackleton's ability to communicate with each man kept the party happy and focused. In 1898, Shackleton joined Union-Castle Line, the regular mail and passenger carrier between Southampton and Cape Town. On March 9, 2022, a team of scientists and adventurers announced they had finally located what remained of the Endurance at the bottom of Antarctica's Weddell Sea. In Boston, a "Shackleton School" was set up on " Outward Bound" principles, with the motto "The Journey is Everything". On 9 January 1909, Shackleton and three companions—Wild, Eric Marshall and Jameson Adams—reached a new Farthest South latitude of 88°23'S, a point only 112 miles (180km) from the Pole.

The goals of the venture were imprecise, but a circumnavigation of the Antarctic continent and investigation of some "lost" sub-Antarctic islands, such as Tuanaki, were mentioned as objectives.Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer, best known for leading the 'Endurance' expedition of 1914-16.